IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loggerhead
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000MI131008
  • User Pedon ID: S2000MI131008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2000MI131008
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 8
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N0432
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13277
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 46.8067284
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7608871
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 51N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • State: Michigan
  • County: MI131—Ontonagon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WA, JSE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Fragic Haplorthods
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loggerhead
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Fragic Haplorthods
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy basal till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat rounded 8- to 24-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10039-180
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA3

    BEAL2

    BEPA

    DIRCA

    DRCA11

    GYDR

    MACA4

    OSVI

    TRBO2

    TSCA

    Acer saccharum

    Betula alleghaniensis

    Betula papyrifera

    Dirca

    Dryopteris carthusiana

    Gymnocarpium dryopteris

    Maianthemum canadense

    Ostrya virginiana

    Trientalis borealis

    Tsuga canadensis

    sugar maple

    yellow birch

    paper birch

    leatherwood

    spinulose woodfern

    western oakfern

    Canada mayflower

    hophornbeam

    starflower

    eastern hemlock

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    spodic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—13

    13—38

    38—142

    91—203

    8—13—15

    0—3—5

    10—-40

    20—-120

    50—-150
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    18

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    400

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    170

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N02486; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—10 to 13 centimeters (3.9 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 01N02487; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bs—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02488; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E/B—38 to 91 centimeters (15.0 to 35.8 inches); 65 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior and 35 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) interior gravelly fine sandy loam, gravelly loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 2 percent faint reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, infused into matrix along faces of peds; 4 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02489; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204267; patchy - phpvsfiid 204267
    B/E—91 to 142 centimeters (35.8 to 55.9 inches); 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior and 60 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 4 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N02490; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204268; patchy - phpvsfiid 204268
    2Bt—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 20 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 6 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 01N02491; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 204269; patchy - phpvsfiid 204269